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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:53:45 +1000
Subject: Re: how to get the ordinal number in list
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> And even when you can
> parallelize a series of tasks, it's

... easy for one task to get aborted part way while the rest of the
tasks continue on, oblivious to the absence of the rest of that
sentence?

ChrisA